Opera House Debut For Samsung External SSD Drive That Is Small But Brutally Fast

Samsung who are seriously driving marketing share in the memory and storage markets has released a nifty new external SSD drive at a launch that had to compete with crowds wanting to get a glimpse of Price Harry at the Sydney Opera House.

The new SSD storage which sells for $269 for a $250GB model uses Samsung's new 3D V-NAND technology which is set to be used in a new generation of Apple devices.

I first saw this devices at CES and the first think I noticed is that it was extremely fast.

Samsung claims the drive offer sequential read/write speeds of up to 450 megabyte per second with USB 3.0 and random read/write speeds of 8,000 inputs/outputs per second (IOPS) and 21,000 IOPS respectively.